Earthquake in the Early Morning

Chapter 8 - 9

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Market Street

Photo from National Geophysical Data Center

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Vocabulary Word for Chapter  8 - 9  -  messengers

messengers   messenger     /'me-s&n-j&r/

Page 60  -  "I told him that two special messengers would soon arrive.".

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Graphing Activity

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Facts and Statistics  http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqstats.html

Create a Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

Earthquakes - When the Big One Hits - Magnitude 8  http://rtb.home.texas.net/quakes.htm#chronology

 

 Take the information from USGS website's first chart entitled "Frequency of Occurrence of Earthquakes
Based on Observations since 1900" and  turn into a bar graph.

OR

At the website Earthquakes - When the Big One Hits - Magnitude 8,  use the chart "Chronology of Major US Quakes" to make graphs illustrating the following information: 

  • deaths
  • damage in dollars
  • magnitude

Examples

 

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From USGS http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqstats.html

 

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